Tag: C64 SID Music
Jürgen Wothke has released an updated version of the Tiny’R’Sid music player. This player allows you to listen to your favourite SID music online! Changes: The player is now using Hermit’s filter, “anti aliasing” and “combined waveform” implementation. Download: websid-1.04.1.zip Website: wothke.ch
If you like SID chiptunes or any retro-gaming-inspired instrumental music for that matter, this might be right up your alley. Phillip Gross has released a new album called ‘Katerstimmung’ with 10 tunes that have a strong connection to video games from the 80’s and 90’s. Although the tunes are not directly related to specific games, Phillip clearly shows from where…
I don’t think there is a single soul that will disagree the Commodore 64 sound chip, the MOS 6581 best known as SID, has changed how the computers make sound and music. Even today, there is an active demo scene dedicated to composing astonishing chiptunes using the SID chip. The Conversation website has published an article that is a celebration of…
‘Project SIDFX’ is a new hardware expansion for any C64, SX-64, and C128 allowing them to use 1 or 2 SIDs chips, even of different models! Currently accepting pre-orders, the new board looks very powerful allowing the user to switch between SID chips while playing the tune.For now, this can be achieved via a hardware switch, but the board is prepared…
There! I confess! I envy people that know how to create SID tunes. Besides the lack of musical inclination, I see tracking software one of the most daunting things to learn in the C64 scene. There are many great tools that try to make it easier for the musicians out there. One that is available to run on modern Windows machines…
8-bit Weapon has released the first official video for the track “Phase I – Lexical Analysis” off the new album “Disassembly Language: Ambient Music for Deprogramming Vol. 1”. [youtube zBUqM1VvPkQ nolink] They explain that the video was shot off a real Commodore 1902 monitor to boot, though the camera was at an angle to give it a pseudo 3d perspective. Pretty nice…
